!Trichocentrum pulchrum Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SECTION Trichocentrum Photo by © Jay Pfahl

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Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Better Lip Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Plant and Flowers Photo by Marni Turkel and Her Stony Point Website

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Common Name The Beautiful Trichocentrum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil as a dwarf epiphyte of wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters with fleshy, rigid, linear-oblong to oblong-elliptic, subacute, leaves where it blooms in the summer and fall on a short, pendant or horizontal scape to 1 4/5" [4.5 cm] long , single, occasionally 2 flowered and shorter than the leaves.

Synonyms Epidendrum maculatum Aubl. 1775; Lophiaris maculata (Aubl.) Ackerman 2000; Oncidium maculatum (Aubl.) Urb. 1918; Orchis punctata Ruiz & Pav. ex Pupulin 1795; Trichocentrum maculatum Lindl. 1846; Trichocentrum speciosum Schlim ex Pupulin 1995; Trichocentrum verruciferum Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as T maculatum; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as T maculatum; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as T pulchrum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 5 1982 photo as T cornucopiae actually T pulchrum; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 3 2000 photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 3 2001 as T maculatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 6 2002 drawing ; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as T sp photo ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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